The wheat cultivar is known to have an important impact on
dough mixing behavior and functional properties, as widely
described in literature
However, studies regarding the effect of the wheat variety on the
microstructure of the gluten phase within dough are scarce. For two
tested wheat varieties, Peighambardoust et al. observed
very similar dough microstructures during mixing in a Farinograph
mixer . However, it is possible that at lower
hydration, varietal differences in gluten phase distribution are
more subtle than at higher W/F ratios . In highly hydrated doughs flour constituents are more
mobile due to the higher amounts of water and the lower packing
volume of starch. Both will contribute to favor gluten lumps
interaction and size growth. The type of wheat cultivar processed in
a small-scale gluten isolation process was shown to have an
important impact on gluten extraction yields , which could be related to variable potential of
gluten lump growth of different varieties during dough mixing.